Legislative business in Minnesota’s 2025-2026 state House session began Tuesday at noon Central Time; or perhaps it hasn’t begun at all. It depends whom you ask.

The 66 members of the Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL)—Minnesota’s affiliate of the national Democratic Party—elected to the lower chamber did not show up Tuesday; these Democrats argue that work can’t begin until after a January 28 special election takes place to fill an open seat in a blue district.

With that seat unfilled, the Republicans lead the chamber 67-66. It’s a temporary advantage the party has vowed to use to try unseating Democratic state representative Rep. Brad Tabke, which could help them cement the GOP’s interim edge for the remainder of the term. Perhaps more importantly, Republicans used the Democrats’ absence on Tuesday to vote in a Republican House speaker.

I applaud your otimism in thinking it will be democratised and not a luxury for wealthy classes.

This is so confusing.

All I did was share a news article about Musk and Tiktok and then say your dismissal of data privacy as a non-issue is untrue.

And now you’ve strawmanned me to say data privacy issues are unique to tiktok and that I’m in favour of the ban. I never said either of those things. Go find someone else to argue with.

When you’ve got everything in life and all you want to do is live longer.

instead of helping the billions living in squalor and dying premature deaths.

Dark and awful thing to say.

The people who will die most are those in already weak health who are unable to vaccinate or children who had no choice.

sell your data nonsense.

you have to be extremely oblivious to ignore that or claim it’s a “boomer” issue. It affects everyone.

Huh?

You’re going to 100% trust what tiktok says? Tiktok also says they are independent from China and don’t sell your data.

Twitter also denied reports Musk was offering to buy them before it became public.

According to Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal

Russian KGB requested this probably.

First check the archive sites.

? its pointless to watch videos without it being tracked to an account and with adds removed?

Unwatched is great on ios.

Be the change you want to see (ie. make it :))

Yeah she’s great.

surveillance capitalism…

That’s mad.

I don’t fucking get it they already quashed the people of Tibet, then the Uyghurs, then Hong Kong, can Winnie the Pooh not take a break?

Like perhaps if your country’s “success” depends on the oppression of people you’re measuring success the wrong way… Just a thought.

Hmm well the Mozarella they sell here in Switzerland is extremely low lactose, but again I do not know if this is equivalent to what is called mozarella in the US.

I remember seeing cheese called “Gruyere” in the US which would be literally banned for false advertising in europe because it has nothing to do with actual gruyere.

Nono you see. 1984 is when we try stopping 1984 from happening, I guess.

I mean, at the limit, if they were clear in their rules that only radical leftists are allowed (which you would assume given it’s called ML - marxist leninism) it might be acceptable.

The genocide denial and masquerading as a neutral all purpose instance isn’t though.

I would take you a little seriously if you weren’t a 13 minute old account with a single issue. (Especially since you yourself deny the Uyghur genocide).

But I agree, it’s problematic that people deny genocide no matter what instance it happens in. But only ML has admins that do it and condone it afaik.